Note
We drove around for hours trying to scent out her trail. I felt Zoe’s anger subside after midnight has passed.
“Now what?” I asked. She looked at me.
“Let go home…” The only thing she could say. I stared at the road going past us, looking for the hidden driveway. I finally found it, pulling up as fast as I could.
“Why did I have to… to yell at her?” She asked, obviously rhetorical.
“Forget it. She probably just took a drive. Do you honestly think she would stay mad at you?” I asked myself the same thing when she noticed what I just said.
“See, you don’t know either.” She jumped out of the car without even opening the door and went inside the house. I still sat inside the car, thinking to myself what had just happened. I replayed the moments of the argument and Venetia’s visit. I had found nothing reasonable in the conversation. Finally, I got out of the car and turned on the alarm for no reason.
The house was still the same as when we had left it. My coat pulled over the dining room chair and I slumped down in the couch. I noticed a small piece of paper in the book on the coffee table and grabbed it. Olivia’s scent was on it.
“Zoe!” I called. She didn’t come. I got up and walked to her room to find her sitting in the middle of the floor. “Zoe, look” I put the note in front of her and sat down. She grabbed it and opened it.
Zoe,
I have known you forever. You have been practically like my sister. You don’t know how hard it was to keep this huge secret from you and how I had to. This argument made me realize how our relationship really is and how it’s been. I will miss you, Zoe, and Chancellor and seeing you both together. I will miss how I buy stuff for you and the look on your face when you open that Abercrombie and Fitch bag and see the preppy clothes inside and how you helped me in Rouvre. I am so sorry it came to this. I will be back home. You don’t need to find me, because I am sure you won’t and if you do, you will get hurt. I am with people who will show no mercy, Zoe. I want to say thank you. Thank you so much for being you, for helping me, for being the most important thing in my entire life. You will always be on my mind when I am with my sister, and how much I hurt you when I had to lie. Those words that you had said, really stuck to me. It gave me the encourage to go our separate ways. Well what else can I say? Nothing. I love you like a sister, Zoe. Have a great life with Chancellor. Maybe even get married someday like I know you will. I am so sad to see that I won’t be there to give you a hug. It’s just time, Zoe. To go our separate ways…
Love always,
Olivia.
I looked at Zoe’s face as she read the note. Her face twisted into a frown. If she were able to cry, I am sure she would have busted into it.
Zoe’s expression changed, Anger.
“Do you know a friend to take us to Italy?” I still sat, shocked at her words. “Do you think I would let my friend leave me? Hell no. Do you, Chance?”
“Well…” I stood up and paced. I remembered one friend. “There’s one…” I looked at her. “How do you feel about ships?”
